[Simh] [HECnet] Announcing PDP-11 Multi-Precision Arithmetic Package V0.9 (Preliminary Version) - FORTRAN 77 Callable

About 10 years ago, I was using an algorithm which required more than 15 digits of precision. I wrote some PDP-11 assembler code which could handle unsigned values up to 2^512 (just under 10^160) plus fractional numbers with 1024 bits that had a precision on the right hand side of the decimal

Re: PDP 11/44 for sale

Rod wrote: I have been on this list for a long time as a reader and wanted to give the list a heads up on this system before doing anything else in case somebody wants it and can pick it up. -- Cabinet 1: Quickware Engineering QED-95 CPU replacement 2- TU-58 tape drives Cabinet 2:

Re: How many use old browsers (e.g. = Netscape 4 or IE 6) as their ONLY source of web content?

Terry Stewart wrote: Hi, I'm engaged in a Retrochallenge project where I'm recoding my classic-computers.org.nz site to make it suitable for mobile platforms. I want to modernise the code as well, making it as close to HTML5 standard as I can The RetroChallenge blog site is here.

Re: Spacewar paper has been published!

Devin Monnens wrote: It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Spacewar paper I wrote with research from Martin Goldberg and responses from many people on this list has finally been published. The paper, Space Odyssey: The Long Journey of Spacewar from MIT to Computer Labs Around the

Re: Writing 8 floppies with SuperCard Pro

of the floppy media. Since the DSD 880/30 is also able to perform a LLF (Low Level Format), I am able to use all of the RX02 media as Double Sided WITHOUT the inconvenience of having to punch the extra index hole. Jerome H. Fine wrote: Josh Dersch wrote: Here at the museum I'm evaluating the use

Re: Writing 8 floppies with SuperCard Pro

Josh Dersch wrote: Here at the museum I'm evaluating the use of a SuperCard Pro (http://www.cbmstuff.com/proddetail.php?prod=SCP) to archive and duplicate 8 floppies from various machines. It's not technically supported (the manual states that it *should* work but has not been tested, etc.)

Re: Classic programming

Eric Christopherson wrote: Is there a subset of this group for people who like to program in languages or language implementations or libraries that are no longer in common mainstream use? Or other groups for such a thing? It may be possible that FORTRAN 77 under RT-11 on a PDP-11 qualifies

Re: DEC RX02-PA?

Pete Turnbull wrote: On 09/08/2015 18:14, Sean Caron wrote: DEC did sell a version of the BA23 that was intended to be used just as an expansion peripherals cabinet. You shouldn't have any problems putting HH devices in BA23 bays (so long as you have the appropriate interfaces to drive

Re: Writing 8 floppies with SuperCard Pro

of the floppy media. Since the DSD 880/30 is also able to perform a LLF (Low Level Format), I am able to use all of the RX02 media as Double Sided WITHOUT the inconvenience of having to punch the extra index hole. Jerome H. Fine wrote: Josh Dersch wrote: Here at the museum I'm evaluating the use

Re: PDP-11 pages/segments/etc (Was: PDP-12 at the RICM)

Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-07-14 19:52, Noel Chiappa wrote: On Jul 13, 2015, at 8:52 PM, Johnny Billquist bqt at update.uu.se wrote: ??? What segments??? The PDP-11 have a plain simple page table. No segments anywhere in sight. And each page is 8K. I know the

Re: Retrochallenge Update (was Re: How many use old browsers (e.g. = Netscape 4 or IE 6) as their ONLY source of web content?)

Terry Stewart wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Terry Stewart te...@webweavers.co.nz wrote: Hi, I'm engaged in a Retrochallenge project where I'm recoding my classic-computers.org.nz site to make it suitable for mobile platforms. I want to modernise the code as well, making it as

Re: Substituting DSHD for DSDD disks (or DS2D if you prefer)

>Paul Berger wrote: >On 2015-10-26 11:38 AM, Jules Richardson wrote: >On 10/24/2015 09:14 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Are we really running short of "720K" floppies? I went around all the local places that I could think of a couple of years ago and bought up whatever stock of floppies that I

Re: Trying to get my RLV11 working

>Noel Chiappa wrote: > From: Ben Sinclair > I'm trying to get my RLV11 working Oh, I was going to mention this about the RLV11 - it's a Q18 device. So it _probably_ won't work in a system with more than 256KB of memory (which you don't, at this point, have, though). It would all depend

Re: Fw: new message

>Jay West wrote: Apologies, not sure how that got through. Maybe a listmember got address-book-malware. Will see if the headers reveal anything that is easy to spot. So few get through that the VERY rare exception is a credit to your diligence and choice of a great filter. And as many of us

To Al Kossow at bitsavers

I sent the following post to Al on November 10th at 9:22 P.M. EST. Al did not reply or I did not see his reply, so I presume that he is just ignoring my request although Al did ask Jay Jaeger to respond. Al, if you have changed your mind, please reply with the name of the incoming directory as

Re: Software for small-memory PDP-11s?

Sorry I forgot to remove the SPAM KEY notice thsat my e-mail places there >Paul Koning wrote: On Nov 13, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: Hey all -- Now that I have my PDP-11/05 running nicely, I'm curious what others are running on small systems like this --

Re: [SPAM key] - Re: Software for small-memory PDP-11s?

>Paul Koning wrote: On Nov 13, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: Hey all -- Now that I have my PDP-11/05 running nicely, I'm curious what others are running on small systems like this -- until this point I've only played with larger (i.e. at least 28KW memory) systems.

Re: MAINDEC-11-DZQKC-E-D listing posted (Re: Deciphering PDP-11/05 ZQKC (Instruction Exerciser) MAINDEC failures...)

>Al Kossow wrote: >On 11/10/15 2:10 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: A PDF is there as well as a zip file containing the original .tif files as Al Kossow prefers for submissions. (Al: Hint, Hint ;) ). Thanks! Just send me an email as you add things, and I will pick them up. I also notice that

Re: Keshe Plasma Energy (MAGRAV) Blueprints Available For Download

This hardware needs to be tested, but I don't have anything like the hardware or the equipment to build and test it. From: "Starship Earth: The Big Picture" > Date: Thursday, 5 November, 2015 6:48 PM To: Steven Goldhar

Re: Know any Fortran programmers who need a more interesting job?

>Liam Proven wrote: «Why NASA Needs a Programmer Fluent In 60-Year-Old Languages To keep the Voyager 1 and 2 crafts going, NASA's new hire has to know FORTRAN and assembly languages. » http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a17991/voyager-1-voyager-2-retiring-engineer/ Does anyone have any

Re: How many use old browsers (e.g. = Netscape 4 or IE 6) as their ONLY source of web content?

Liam Proven wrote: On 3 July 2015 at 18:22, Jerome H. Fine jhfined...@compsys.to wrote: I understand that Netscape has been replaced by Mozilla. HOWEVER, since CHROME seems to be the most widely used, would CHROME be able to support the retention of ALL of my old e-mails and posts from

Many Manuals - Also Boxes of Fan Fold Paper

Since the topic of hard copy manuals is at least on a few minds, I thought I would mention that I have at least 20 feet of mostly DEC PDP-11 related manuals which will have to be tossed if a home can't be found. While I estimate that at least 90% of the DEC manuals are on bitsavers, some

Re: PDP-11 manuals scanned/scanning

>Noel Chiappa wrote: OK, so I finally got set up to scan manuals, with a scanner with a document feeder, so I don't have to sit there and feed the beast! So now I can scan in a number of 'missing' (online, at least) PDP-11 manuals which I happen to have. The first thing through the machine was

Re: Ransomware [was Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]]

>Mouse wrote: There is a ramsomware variant that encrypts the files but silently decrypts $ This depends on the backup-taking accessing the files in a way that doesn't trip the decryption. It also depends on nobody test-restoring from the backups, or at least not sanity-checking the

Re: KDJ11-A/M8192 identified as PDT11/50 from resorc /a?

>Holm Tiffe wrote: ..have repaired a HH725 Harddisk /TA7245BP was bad since a tantal Elko had a short) and booted now RT11 V5.07 with the new now repaired 1/73 CPU. Resorc /A give the following informations: .resorc /a RT-11XB (S) V05.07 Booted from DL0:RT11XB Resident Monitor base is

Re: Regarding Manuals

>Al Kossow wrote: >On 9/25/15 9:57 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: If you whip up a list of what you've got, I'd be happy to check it for you. You REALLY want to check what Alan Frisbie has done this past year before spending a lot of time on this. I see in alt.sys.pdp11 that he just listed an

Re: Ping to Tim Shoppa

>Eric Christopherson wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2015, Jerome H. Fine wrote: This post is for Tim Shoppa. This have seen your replies every so often on classiccmp, so you don't seem to be totally out of touch. If you are reading this, Alan Frisbie and I would appreciate some help. Allan

PDF for RT-11 V05.07 Release Notes

This request is for Al Kossow. However, if anyone else knows where AA-5286M-TC is located as a PDF on the internet, it would be appreciated. I have downloaded the V05.06 PDF from one of the mirrors: AA-5286L-TC_RT-11_System_Release_Notes_Aug91.pdf

Ping to Tim Shoppa

This post is for Tim Shoppa. This have seen your replies every so often on classiccmp, so you don't seem to be totally out of touch. If you are reading this, Alan Frisbie and I would appreciate some help. Allan can be reached at the address to which I sent a copy. Jerome Fine

Re: PDF for RT-11 V05.07 Release Notes

>Jerome H. Fine wrote: This request is for Al Kossow. However, if anyone else knows where AA-5286M-TC is located as a PDF on the internet, it would be appreciated. I have downloaded the V05.06 PDF from one of the mirrors: AA-5286L-TC_RT-11_System_Release_Notes_Aug91.pdf h

Re: PDF for RT-11 V05.07 Release Notes

>Jerome H. Fine wrote: This request is for Al Kossow. However, if anyone else knows where AA-5286M-TC is located as a PDF on the internet, it would be appreciated. I have downloaded the V05.06 PDF from one of the mirrors: AA-5286L-TC_RT-11_System_Release_Notes_Aug91.pdf h

Re: Regarding Manuals

>Jerome H. Fine wrote: >Al Kossow wrote: >On 9/25/15 9:57 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: If you whip up a list of what you've got, I'd be happy to check it for you. You REALLY want to check what Alan Frisbie has done this past year before spending a lot of time on this. I see in alt.

Re: Multi-platform distribution format (Was: Backups [was

>Chuck Guzis wrote: >On 09/20/2015 03:03 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: >On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, ben wrote: I was just digging in to old CP/M a bit and it was/is tied mostly to the IBM 8" standard floppy and the floppy interface used at the time. Even that gave a very small amount memory per track.

Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

>Fred Cisin wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, Jon Elson wrote: Well, one would assume this is also OS specific. I would guess it would be incredibly hard to make a "disk" virus that would work on greatly differing OS's like Linux AND Windows. No telling what would happen if one of these disk

Re: Regarding Manuals

>Al Kossow wrote: >On 9/24/15 5:53 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: I think the oldest I have seen from Sun is from 1987 or 88. Is that old enough? Yes, 4.1.x is what I am looking for in particular. I have most of 3.0 - 4.1 covered, and any products that I don't have there, in particular a

Re: Multi-platform distribution format (Was: Backups [was

>Johnny Billquist wrote: In any case, adding and correcting the extra code was quite easy. The challenge was to also add support for a user buffer being above the 1/4 MB boundary in a PDP-11 with all 4 MB of memory when a Mapped RT-11 Monitor was used since the controller supported only 18-bit

Re: Multi-platform distribution format (Was: Backups [was

>tony duell wrote: If it was possible to perform a LLF using the same RX50 drive on the Rainbow, what was the reason why an LLF could not also be It is. Remember the RX50 is just a drive, it does not include any of the controller electronics. performed on a PDP-11? There seems to be a

Re: Multi-platform distribution format (Was: Backups [was

>Rod Smallwood wrote: >On 21/09/2015 10:30, Johnny Billquist wrote: >On 2015-09-21 02:11, Jerome H. Fine wrote: You bring up a VERY notable lack of support by DEC of that situation!! For both the DEC RX01 and the DEC RX02 8" floppy drives, while it m

PDP-11 Overlays

Recently, there have been a number of references to using overlays on the PDP-11. There have also been strong suggestions that overlays were structured differently under the 3 operating systems: RSTS/E, RSX-11 and RT-11. Obviously, I understand how RT-11 overlays were set up, but for those

Re: Multi-platform distribution format (Was: Backups [was

>Jay Jaeger wrote: On 9/21/2015 11:34 AM, Paul Koning wrote: For RX50? On standard PDP11s, those used an MSCP controller, which means the controller would have to do it. Did it? The only MSCP controller I remember that did formatting was the UDA50. I suppose you could on a Pro, since

Re: Maximizing value selling a working 11/34

>William Donzelli wrote: Keep it together. RL drives are pigs to ship and rather common. Basically, they are hard to sell on their own. Also, be aware that the competition is not someone else selling another PDP-11 system, but a PC running Windows which runs the same software UNDER Ersatz-11

Re: TU-58

>On Friday, December 4th, 2015 at 11:41 A.M. GMT (6:41 A.M. EST) Rod Smallwood wrote: Hello All Well I managed to find some suitable rubber tubing and glued it in place of the nasty black mess. So I put everything back and turned on. Lo and Behold LED on the board flashed once

Advice and Suggestions for a Debug Feature

I have been investigating the possibility of adding an enhanced feature to a debug program. There does not seem to be anything specific about the concept, so it should be applicable to every current CPU in addition to most old CPUs. The current syntax for many debuggers uses the letter "S" along

Re: [SPAM key] - Re: Advice and Suggestions for a Debug Feature

>Tapley, Mark wrote: On Dec 16, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfined...@compsys.to> wrote: Note that for many CPUs, adding values (a push) results in the stack pointer becoming numerically smaller (unsigned of course). Internally, the code would handle the actual arithmetic.

Re: Advice and Suggestions for a Debug Feature

Sorry for that BAD stuff in the Subject line - my e-mail provider stuffs that in much of the time and I forget to remove it when I reply. If anyone needs a clean copy, I can send it again! Jerome Fine

Re: [SPAM key] - Re: Software for DEC MINC systems

>Jay Jaeger wrote: On 12/29/2015 2:47 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: I have had several folks express the desire for them. Over the day or few days (we have a gathering coming up tomorrow, and not sure I will get to it today, so it could be as late as next week), I will load them up on my Google

Re: Software for DEC MINC systems

Sorry - I did it again and forgot to remove the junk in the subject line! >Jerome H. Fine wrote: >Jay Jaeger wrote: On 12/29/2015 2:47 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: I have had several folks express the desire for them. Over the day or few days (we have a gathering coming up tomorrow, and no

Re: Merry Christmas

>Jay West wrote: Just wanted to say a very sincere Thank You to all the talented folks that hang out here and call this place home, and also to wish you and yours a Merry Christmas. Best, Jay West jw...@classiccmp.org It is a pleasure to wish you and everyone else a Merry Christmas. And a

Re: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers

>Robert Jarratt wrote: -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis Sent: 27 December 2015 20:34 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers On 12/27/2015

Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?

>Noel Chiappa wrote: > From: Jerome H. Fine > both DEC and DSD needed a bounce buffer managed by software Love that term, "bounce buffer" (I wrote a whole package to support them in a packet switch I did) - I'm officially adopting it, right now! :-) No

Re: "Bounce buffer" copyright [was Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?]

>Mouse wrote: Love that term, "bounce buffer" (I wrote a whole package to support them in a packet switch I did) - I'm officially adopting it, right now! :-) Hey - anything that anyone writes is automatically copyrighted. I realize you...may have been less than entirely serious. But what

Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?

>Johnny Billquist wrote: >On 2015-11-27 19:34, Mark J. Blair wrote: >On Nov 26, 2015, at 04:29, Jerome H. Fine <jhfined...@compsys.to> wrote: After that worked successfully, I became disappointed that I had to deface the floppy media with the extra holes. The simple solu

Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?

>tony duell wrote: The RH11 do DMA, just like all other disk controllers I know of. IIRC, the RX11/RX211 (Unibus) and RXV11/RXV21 (Qbus) don't do DMA. The RX11/RXV11 don't do DMA, but the RX211 and RXV21 do, I think I can confirm that the RXV11 for the Qbus does not and I am also

Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?

>Jerry Weiss wrote: On Nov 25, 2015, at 10:41 PM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfined...@compsys.to> wrote: For example, the DSD 880/30 (from Data Systems Design of course) emulates 3 RL02 disk drives using a single internal (non-removable) hard drive. The box also holds a single RX03 floppy d

Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?

>Johnny Billquist wrote: >On 2015-11-24 16:35, Al Kossow wrote: >On 11/23/15 11:46 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Your native interface have the additional problem that in addition to requiring people to write their own device driver for any OS usage, it will be rather difficult to get booting

Re: PDP-11/94-E

>Rod Smallwood wrote: [Snip] 4. I have what I believed is a working 11/83 in my computer room 5 . I'm going to try my processor in there and yes I know about PMI and the backplane. Just a bit of information from what I seem to remember - I hope the information is correct. The M8190-BF

Re: The RSTS riddle.

>On Saturday, May 21st, 2016 at 19:29:11 +0100, Rod Smallwood wrote: Further to my posts this morning I have one last hurdle to jump. 1. I have a VAX with a TK70 attached and a TQK70 controller. 2. The tape drive works just fine. 3. Also on the VAX I have the correct tape (.TAP)

Interesting Material - BOTH on topic and off topic

I expect that everyone on this list knows about most of the tools to communicate. Many also use these tools and understand how much easier communication has become as a result.

Re: 11/[9]4 latest

>Rod Smallwood wrote: >On 06/06/2016 10:36, Jerome H. Fine wrote: >Rod Smallwood wrote: >On 06/06/2016 03:51, Jerome H. Fine wrote: >Rod Smallwood wrote: I have a box full of 8" floppies. BTW how many 8" floppies do you think there were in an RT11 distribut

Re: 11/[9]4 latest

>Rod Smallwood wrote: On 06/06/2016 03:51, Jerome H. Fine wrote: >Rod Smallwood wrote: I have a box full of 8" floppies. BTW how many 8" floppies do you think there were in an RT11 distribution? I can't remember for sure, but I think there were eight SSDD (RX02) flopp

Re: 11/[9]4 latest

>Rod Smallwood wrote: [Snip] My 11/83 is back together and booting RT on the RD53 via the RQDX3 as normal. Just a suggestion. Everyone that has mentioned the RD53 has mentioned that eventually (unfortunately sooner rather than later) the heads end up sticking. There has been an extensive

Re: Restoring an RXV21 and/or an RX02

>Rod Smallwood wrote: In my quest for a working RX02 I'm trying to find out the best way of checking out an RXV21 and get it talking to the RX02. I have most of the standard diagnostics including XXDP. The setup is an 11/83 with an RX50 and RD53. (I can boot from either) In the box is

Re: Accessing a TK50 or TK70 from RT

>Rod Smallwood wrote: Firstly one important fact that I did not know. If you bulk erase a TK50 you can turn it into a TK70 tape with an INIT. Thank you I did not know that. A bulk erase was the first thing that seemed to be the solution since I had, fortunately, found a blank

Re: Accessing a TK50 or TK70 from RT

>Adrian Graham wrote: On 12/06/2016 12:15, "Rod Smallwood" wrote: Nearly there I think. I have loads of TK50 tapes to format. I'm pretty sure the TK70 can only read TK50 tapes and not write to them... Thanks Graham Now that sounds highly

Re: PDP-11/94-E

>Rod Smallwood wrote: >On 03/06/2016 16:43, Jerome H. Fine wrote: >Rod Smallwood wrote: [Snip] 4. I have what I believed is a working 11/83 in my computer room 5 . I'm going to try my processor in there and yes I know about PMI and the backplane. Just a bit of information

Re: PDP-11/94-E

>Henk Gooijen wrote: -Oorspronkelijk bericht- From: jwsmobile Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 7:51 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: PDP-11/94-E On 6/3/2016 9:11 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: >Rod Smallwood wrote: >On 03/06/2016 16:43, Jerom

Re: Accessing a TK50 or TK70 from RT

>Jerry Weiss wrote: On Jun 11, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfined...@compsys.to> wrote: Rod Smallwood wrote: I have had some success in fixing a couple of TK tape drives. They now load and unload every time you press the button. SFSG now to talk to them from R

Re: Accessing a TK50 or TK70 from RT

>Rod Smallwood wrote: I have had some success in fixing a couple of TK tape drives. They now load and unload every time you press the button. SFSG now to talk to them from RT. Using the diagnostics on the format (RX50) disk the Identify function shows the drive and by inference its

Re: Accessing a TK50 or TK70 from RT

>Rod Smallwood wrote: >On 13/06/2016 02:33, r.stricklin wrote: The metal tape path rollers are used as tachometers to make sure the tape is feeding at the correct speed. If the tape drags over them, the firmware will consider the transport jammed and abort. A drop or two of light machine

Re: 11/[9]4 latest

>Rod Smallwood wrote: [Snip] The RX is clearly alive, The motor runs, belt tension is good and you can hear the heads load. I have a box full of 8" floppies. BTW how many 8" floppies do you think there were in an RT11 distribution? I can't remember for sure, but I think there were eight

Re: The Great TK revival

>On Saturday, June 18th, 2016 at 11:22:19 +0100, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi The great TK revival continues apace. There's a TK50 in my VAX 4000 running really well. Purrs like a cat I have TK70 in the RT-11 (11/83 QED) Machine that also runs. TK70 should read the TK50 tapes. It tries but

RT-11 Symbolic Debugger SD:

I am not expecting a whole crowd to respond, but even one individual would be helpful. I also realize that very few individuals even know about the RT-11 Symbolic Debugger, SD:, which is a pseudo device driver what is usually activated by a BPT instruction within a user's program - as opposed

Re: TU58 problems

>tony duell wrote: Similarly, it could be a useful diagnostic tool to connect the real TU58 hardware to a known-working (presumably slightly more modern) machine to see if it's willing to work that way. Yes. Does such a program exist? Something that will let me send commands to the TU58 and

Re: TU58 problems

>tony duell wrote: While the TU-58 tape will not have an RT-11 file structure, you can at least read each raw block and display the contents: Actually I believe the VAX11/730 console tape is an RT11 file system (for all there is no PDP11 involved). On a VAX, there is an application (named

Re: emergency moderation mode RE: Virtualizing AIX 1.3 - WAS::::Re: AIX for IBM PS/2

>Dave Mabry wrote: Jay West wrote on 2/6/2016 11:51 AM: I had already turned on emergency moderation mode to try and stem the tide of this escalating further. I had also already emailed a few people off-list about this, which is primarily how it should be handled. Those who should have

Re: Good memory board for Heath H-11?

>Richard Cini wrote: Jerome -- good point about the IOPAGE. Maybe I'll get an 8kw and 16kw board -- that gives me 28kw with the included 4kw. I have no specific software so I don't need to tinker with reducing IOPAGE. Rich On Feb 9, 2016, at 10:47 PM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfined...@comp

Re: 11/73 into 11/03 chassis?

I top post only once or twice a year. This is the exception since my reply does not explicitly address the question. An internal built-in power supply is just the ordinary standard power supply which provides power to the board on which the CPU is located. I have managed to avoid many of the

Re: Farewell and thanks!

>Mouse wrote: I've finally had my fill of the general grumpiness and bluntly worded interactions on this list. Sorry to hear that. What linimon@ said. I fight against such things on other lists I am on, but some weeks I also wonder why. I just now noticed something. I've noticed

Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA gard drives?

I run Windows 98SE on a 14 year old Pentium III. I have replaced the power supply twice and all three hard disk drives. It is a really good system to run the Ersatz-11 emulator for the PDP-11, specifically RT-11. Since Ersatz-11 has built-in VT100 emulation, I don't need a separate terminal

Re: [SPAM key] - Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA gard drives?

>m...@markesystems.com wrote: Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:44:44 -0500 From: "Jerome H. Fine" <jhfined...@compsys.to> Subject: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA gard drives? I run Windows 98SE on a 14 year old Pentium III. I have replaced the power supply twice

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA gard drives?

>m...@markesystems.com wrote: Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:44:44 -0500 From: "Jerome H. Fine" <jhfined...@compsys.to> Subject: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA gard drives? I run Windows 98SE on a 14 year old Pentium III. I have replaced the power supply twice

Re: PDP-11/84 (KDJ11-B) and Error 61

>Ulrich Tagge wrote:Hi Glen, [Snip] List/change parameters in the Setup table A - ANSI Video terminal (1) 0=No, 1=Yes = 1 B - Power up 0=Dialog, (1)=Automatic, 2=ODT, 3=24 = 1 C - Restart 0=Dialog, (1)=Automatic, 2=ODT, 3=24 = 1 D - Ignore battery

Re: Mentec manuals

>paul_kon...@dell.com wrote: I was looking back at the discussion on what Mentec actually owned, back when it existed. The discussion on the list suggested that Mentec had a license but did not actually own the IP. It seems an odd arrangement that doesn't say much for the business skills

Helpful Features in a Debugger

While the debugger in question will be for the PDP-11 set of instructions executing under RT-11 (what else would I be asking about), the features needed are the same for most other environments. I am looking for helpful suggestions as to what has been found useful. Obviously, single stepping

Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

>On Saturday, February 27th, 2016 at 21:24:12 -0500, Mouse wrote: [Snip] And then there's the adjustment time. CRTs typically adjust to a resolution change in a matter of a few vertical blanking intervals. Flatscreens generally take multiple seconds, sometimes even a second or so before they

Re: Helpful Features in a Debugger

>On Monday, February 22nd, 2016 at 15:22:55 +0100, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 09:08:56AM -0500, Jerome H. Fine wrote: A number of other ideas are as follows: (a) During a multi-step sequence, stop the sequence when the stack has more then a specified num

Re: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)

>Mattis Lind wrote: 2016-02-26 4:01 GMT+01:00 Chuck Guzis : A few more (I have source): Hockey Fleet (sort of battleship game) Football Lunar Lander (of course!) Blackjack Lots and lots of printer art --Chuck When at Retrogathering in Västerås (Sweden) a month a ago we

Re: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)

>Ethan Dicks wrote: I've been meaning to ask this question since I started cleaning up terminals this year... what are some favorites? Some of the obvious classics are: Adventure Zork (and anything else on a Zmachine) Scott Adams Adventures Wumpus Anything in Dave Ahl's "101 BASIC Computing

V05.06 RT-11 DOC Set - Pickup Required in Los Angeles to Help Jay West

V05.06 RT-11 DOC Set - Pickup Required in Los Angeles to Help Jay West An old RT-11 fellow tried to sell his V05..06 RT-11 DOC set on eBay, but no one bid. Jay West has expressed a desire to have the hard copy set of manuals. Is there anyone in the Los Angeles area who would be willing to

Re: 11/73 into 11/03 chassis?

Jacob Ritorto wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfined...@compsys.to> wrote: Specifically, I always use a SEPARATE PC power supply for the hard disk drives. Yep, this sounds like exactly where I went wrong. Two RD32s running 24/7. Took it only a couple

Re: VAXen and minimal memory (was Re: The PDP11/04 has landed..)

>Jon Elson wrote: >On 02/11/2016 08:56 AM, Mark Wickens wrote: It's good to hear that the VAX was a cost-effective solution - there are too many stories about how expensive DEC gear was, but I imagine they primarily came after PCs started dropping in price. We paid somewhere between 200 and

Re: Which RT-11 for an 11/03

>Richard Cini wrote: All — To close this out, I want to report that with Malcolm’s and Mattis’ help, I was able to get RT-11 v4 and v5.03 running on the H-11 using the TU58 emulator. Avoiding the gory details, the upshot is that there was a bus interrupt issue relating to how the

Re: Which RT-11 for an 11/03

>On Thursday, February 10th, 2016 at 12:51:30 - 0500, Richard Cini wrote: Is there a listing somewhere of what versions of RT-11 work with which CPUs? The Heath H11 uses the LSI-11 which I think is an 11/03 equivalent. Is there a specific version (or maximum version) designed for this CPU? I

Re: VMS/RSTS/RSX manuals available, SOC, DECdirect books, Newmarket UK

>Adrian Graham wrote: On 11/03/2016 17:54, "Paul Koning" wrote: They're in a sales office and I forgot about them when you visited otherwise you could've taken them. I'm guessing at the versions but it'll probably be VMS 5.5 and RSTS4 but I can check on Monday.

BA23 Box with RLV11 (Was: 11/23+ box with Microvax Memory)

>jwsmobile wrote: I see on the usual site, an 11/23 box with a couple of random boards, one of which is an M7608 board. This is a Microvax memory board. I wonder if one can build up a Microvax in that backplane, or if that is not recommended. It would obviously be an 18 bit backplane. The

Re: Imaging RX02 disks for simh (was: Re: MU-BASIC V2 and RT-11 V03B distribution disks.)

>Brian Walenz wrote: How the heck do you copy an RX02 disk for use in simh? I've been trying to transfer RX02 images between simh and a real PDP11 (that has only two RX02's, console, and ethernet). So far, I've only attempted sending an RX02 image from the PDP to simh, but simh fails to read

Re: Usenet News Servers

>On Saturday, March 5th, 2016 at 12:53:22 +, Robert Jarratt wrote: My ISP appears to have stopped updating the newsgroups it hosts. What news servers do people round here recommend? I have a question about access to newsgroups. Which currently available browser is able to access a

Re: SeaMonkey - Re: Usenet News Servers

>Toby Thain wrote: >On 2016-03-06 9:27 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: I have a question about access to newsgroups. Which currently available browser is able to access a newsgroups server? Currently, I am using Netscape 7.2 under Windows 98SE. If I upgrade to Windows 10, I probably won'

Re: Imaging RX02 disks for simh (was: Re: MU-BASIC V2 and RT-11 V03B distribution disks.)

>Brian Walenz wrote: How the heck do you copy an RX02 disk for use in simh? I've been trying to transfer RX02 images between simh and a real PDP11 (that has only two RX02's, console, and ethernet). So far, I've only attempted sending an RX02 image from the PDP to simh, but simh fails to read

Re: Keys - Non-Ace was RE: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

>Paul Koning wrote: On Apr 24, 2016, at 8:54 PM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfined...@compsys.to> wrote: Kyle Owen wrote: On a related note, a former DEC field engineer gave me this key (and keychain). He thought it was a PDP-8 key at first, but it's not the standard XX2247

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